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Debian Lenny ATI HD 3450 AGP Ati proprietary drivers

02-26-2009, 11:00 AM

Hello everybody
I'm new to this forum so I apologize if I miss something important...
I have a Debian Lenny installed on P4 2.6 GHZ 512 Mb RAM and now
I have bought an ATI HD 3450 AGP and 'lspci' tells me:
"01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 LE AGP [Radeon HD 3450]"
Now I have it working with the radeonhd 1.2.4 driver and mesa libs but unfortunately
it doesn't seem to support 3D acceleration...
from Xorg.log:
I had to install the latest 1.2.4 version because of my card chipset ID, which
wasn't recognized as an RV620 card with previous versions (i.e. 1.2.1)
from Xorg.log:
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1002,95c6 card 1043,0028 rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 80
It seems clear that at the moment there is no alternative: I have to use proprietary drivers but
with ATI CAtalyst driver from debian distribution and with the one from AMD site
(https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run)
as well after making xorg.conf with aticonfg and start Gnome Desktop Environment and everything seems to be fine but when I try to execute glx utils (i.e. glxgears) or try to watch a videofile the xserver freezes and my keyboard doesn't respond and all I have left is to push reset button.
If anyone has any idea or solution please post!

The packaging scripts for Catalyst drivers 9.1 and 9.2 seem to be broken on Debian Lenny, and as of 9.2, Debian Etch as well.

The quick fix we found for Mepis 8 is to use the SGFXI script from SMXI with the force command.

Installation and configuration on Debian Pure should be identical to Mepis 8.

1 : start from ground zero. You want all of the previous driver information and install files to be gone, and you want to be on the VESA driver. If you have to, reinstall while keeping your /home directory.